The International Space Station has been flying over Houston this week, putting on a show during the early morning and evening hours. On Saturday night Houston photographer Ira B. Wise captured this awesome shot of the station above the Sam Houston statue in Hermann Park. There’s one more opportunity to see the station, on Monday […]
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Scientists with the New Horizons mission have now downloaded about 5 percent of the data collected by the spacecraft during its Pluto flyby 10 days ago. In a news conference today they discussed some of these stunning findings. Here are three of the biggest showstoppers. 1. Higher resolution of true color Pluto image. Better images are […]
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Astronomers have found an Earth-sized world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star 1,400 light years away. According to the scientists, the world has a radius about 60 percent larger than Earth, and has a better than even chance of having a rocky composition, an atmosphere and surface water. The discovery comes as astronomers have completed […]
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4:15 p.m. UPDATE: The launch was nominal, and the crew expects to rendezvous with the space station at around 10 p.m. tonight. ORIGINAL ENTRY: This afternoon, half way around the world in Kazakhstan, a Russian spacecraft will launch at 4:02 p.m. CT carrying three people to the International Space Station. Watch live: Kjell Lindgren of […]
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I’ve written much today about a new report that finds NASA could use private rockets to explore the moon, and then Mars, in a much more affordable manner. What I haven’t done is provide a copy of the report. Until now: NexGen report on leveraging commercial rockets to return to the moon by Eric Berger
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Today NASA scientists discussed the latest results from the New Horizons mission to Pluto. And Pluto and Charon, it turns out, are an oddball pair. Pluto is light, and has a thin atmosphere, Charon is dark and mysterious. From looking at just 1 percent of Pluto’s surface in detail, scientists said they have already seen […]
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See below for updates on NASA’s New Horizons mission, which will make its closest approach to Pluto at 6:49 a.m. CT on Tuesday, passing to within 7,800 miles of the mysterious world. Wednesday 7:30 a.m. CT All is well with the New Horizons spacecraft. NASA is expected to share some initial findings from the flyby […]
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has spent a decade chasing down Pluto, and it’s now just four days away from a Tuesday morning flyby. At closest approach early Tuesday the spacecraft will come within about 7,750 miles of Pluto, and within about 17,900 miles from the dwarf planet’s largest moon, Charon. The best images won’t be […]
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